Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids A mum's 89p hack for saving her daughter's school shoes has gone viral.
When five-year-old Brooke's school shoes were scuffed at the front after just three weeks in school, mum Veronique McDermott was understandably reluctant to buy a new pair.
So after trying to cover the scuff marks with nail polish and Sharpie pen, she decided to try some electric tape - and has never looked back.
It lasted months and was so successful that she's doing the same thing again - to get even longer out of the same pair of £12 shoes.
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